Nonsense Novels
In Nonsense Novels are ten recognizable stock situations from late Victorian fiction. Among them are Leacock's versions of nineteenth-century utopianism, the self-conscious and robust sea-story, the Highland romance, Sherlock Holmes, and Horatio Alger -- all executed with complete control and...
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In Nonsense Novels are ten recognizable stock situations from late Victorian fiction. Among them are Leacock's versions of nineteenth-century utopianism, the self-conscious and robust sea-story, the Highland romance, Sherlock Holmes, and Horatio Alger -- all executed with complete control and sureness of touch. The result is some of the most hilarious burlesques ever written.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780771091353 (0771091354)
Publish date: 1967
Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Pages no: 155
Edition language: English
Series: New Canadian Library (#35)